With abbrev mode, I can define abbreviations that trigger when I type a certain term. For example, typing "yn" would be expanded to "Your Name". For this, "yn" must have been defined as an abbreviation before hand.
What I'm looking for is a setup in which rather than specifying the abbreviation terms explicitly, I can specify a regular expression that when matched gets expanded by the defined instructions.
A simple example would be that everytime I type a website as
website_name.org
it gets expanded to
https://website_name.org
I'm specifically looking for a solution that works like abbrev in that I don't have to invoke a command after typing my abbreviation to have it converted.
abbrev-expand-functionto a function that does what you want, in terms of matching a given regexp? – Drew Jan 9 '16 at 18:04